Video: Camilla gives out the high fives on visit to London's BRIT School

Video: Camilla gives out the high fives on visit to London's BRIT School

Video: Camilla gives out the high fives on visit to London's BRIT School

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Unorthodox welcome: the Duchess of Cornwall plays along

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'Brilliant experience': Jonty Ryder poses for his camera phone with the Duchess

The Duchess of Cornwall went back to school today - and exchanged a "high five" with one of the students.

She was visiting the BRIT School in Croydon when music student
Jonty Ryder, 17, decided to welcome her in a less than formal style
as she toured the canteen.

Jonty, who recorded his meeting with Camilla on his iPhone, told
the Standard he was surprised that she decided to play ball.

He said: "I said: 'Can I have a high five?' for a fair few
times. It was a brilliant experience."

Camilla was shown how the school, where Adele, Jessie J and
Leona Lewis were students, taught more than just music.

She watched a community arts choir made up of students and women
pensioners from Age UK sing the Beatles song With A Little Help
From My Friends. Camilla, 65, said that Prince Charles was patron
of Age UK and told them: "I think I should probably be joining
you."

When she visited a mock studio with students practising how to
work in TV, she grabbed the controls of a TV camera and pretended
to operate it. Last year she and Charles read the weather forecast
on a visit to BBC Scotland.

The school was set up by the British Record Industry Trust
(Brit) 21 years ago and gets a large part of its income from the
Brit awards and Classical Brit awards, which Camilla has
attended.

More than 10,000 students have passed through its doors, taking
nine different courses including music, dance and musical
theatre.

For entry this September there has been more than 2,350
applications for 600 places.